Only a handful of primate species exhibit the social relationship of pair‐bonding. Efficient comm... more Only a handful of primate species exhibit the social relationship of pair‐bonding. Efficient communication is critical for behavioral coordination within pair‐bonds to maintain proximity and respond appropriately to extra‐pair individuals, and possibly coordinate infant care. The use of complex signaling across modalities may help individuals improve communicative outcomes. We review many ways that pair‐bonded species use signals to communicate and maintain bonds, though little previous research has taken a truly multimodal approach within a single species. We make a call for further investigation into pair‐bonded communication using a multimodal approach to better understand how these species use all their senses to build, maintain, and advertise their bonds.
Oxytocin has become a popular analyte in behavioral endocrinology in recent years, due in part to... more Oxytocin has become a popular analyte in behavioral endocrinology in recent years, due in part to its roles in social behavior, stress physiology, and cognition. Urine samples have the advantage of being non-invasive and minimally disruptive to collect, allowing for oxytocin measurements even in some wild populations. However, methods for urinary oxytocin immunoassay have not been sufficiently optimized and rigorously assessed for their potential limitations. Using samples from oxytocin knockout (KO) and wildtype (WT) mice, we find evidence of considerable interference in unextracted urine samples, with similar distributions of measured oxytocin in both genotypes. Importantly, although this interference can be reduced by a reversed-phase solid-phase extraction (SPE), this common approach is not sufficient for eliminating false-positive signal on three immunoassay kits. To better understand the source of the observed interference, we conducted epitope mapping of the Arbor Assays anti...
Skip to main content ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. My Account; FAQ; About; Home. Home > SBS >... more Skip to main content ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. My Account; FAQ; About; Home. Home > SBS > ANTHRO > ANTHRO_FACULTY_PUBS > 141. Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series. Title. Morphometric data and patterns of growth in wild Propithecus edivardsi at Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Authors. SJ King TL Morelli S Arrigo-Nelson S Tecot LR Godfrey J Jernvall PC Wright. Publication Date. 2009. Pages. 165-165. Journal Title. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Tell a Colleague Print COinS. ...
Among mammals, the order Primates is exceptional in having a high taxonomic richness in which the... more Among mammals, the order Primates is exceptional in having a high taxonomic richness in which the taxa are arboreal, semiterrestrial, or terrestrial. Although habitual terrestriality is pervasive among the apes and African and Asian monkeys (catarrhines), it is largely absent among monkeys of the Americas (platyrrhines), as well as galagos, lemurs, and lorises (strepsirrhines), which are mostly arboreal. Numerous ecological drivers and species-specific factors are suggested to set the conditions for an evolutionary shift from arboreality to terrestriality, and current environmental conditions may provide analogous scenarios to those transitional periods. Therefore, we investigated predominantly arboreal, diurnal primate genera from the Americas and Madagascar that lack fully terrestrial taxa, to determine whether ecological drivers (habitat canopy cover, predation risk, maximum temperature, precipitation, primate species richness, human population density, and distance to roads) or ...
Only a handful of primate species exhibit the social relationship of pair‐bonding. Efficient comm... more Only a handful of primate species exhibit the social relationship of pair‐bonding. Efficient communication is critical for behavioral coordination within pair‐bonds to maintain proximity and respond appropriately to extra‐pair individuals, and possibly coordinate infant care. The use of complex signaling across modalities may help individuals improve communicative outcomes. We review many ways that pair‐bonded species use signals to communicate and maintain bonds, though little previous research has taken a truly multimodal approach within a single species. We make a call for further investigation into pair‐bonded communication using a multimodal approach to better understand how these species use all their senses to build, maintain, and advertise their bonds.
Oxytocin has become a popular analyte in behavioral endocrinology in recent years, due in part to... more Oxytocin has become a popular analyte in behavioral endocrinology in recent years, due in part to its roles in social behavior, stress physiology, and cognition. Urine samples have the advantage of being non-invasive and minimally disruptive to collect, allowing for oxytocin measurements even in some wild populations. However, methods for urinary oxytocin immunoassay have not been sufficiently optimized and rigorously assessed for their potential limitations. Using samples from oxytocin knockout (KO) and wildtype (WT) mice, we find evidence of considerable interference in unextracted urine samples, with similar distributions of measured oxytocin in both genotypes. Importantly, although this interference can be reduced by a reversed-phase solid-phase extraction (SPE), this common approach is not sufficient for eliminating false-positive signal on three immunoassay kits. To better understand the source of the observed interference, we conducted epitope mapping of the Arbor Assays anti...
Skip to main content ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. My Account; FAQ; About; Home. Home > SBS >... more Skip to main content ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. My Account; FAQ; About; Home. Home > SBS > ANTHRO > ANTHRO_FACULTY_PUBS > 141. Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series. Title. Morphometric data and patterns of growth in wild Propithecus edivardsi at Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Authors. SJ King TL Morelli S Arrigo-Nelson S Tecot LR Godfrey J Jernvall PC Wright. Publication Date. 2009. Pages. 165-165. Journal Title. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Tell a Colleague Print COinS. ...
Among mammals, the order Primates is exceptional in having a high taxonomic richness in which the... more Among mammals, the order Primates is exceptional in having a high taxonomic richness in which the taxa are arboreal, semiterrestrial, or terrestrial. Although habitual terrestriality is pervasive among the apes and African and Asian monkeys (catarrhines), it is largely absent among monkeys of the Americas (platyrrhines), as well as galagos, lemurs, and lorises (strepsirrhines), which are mostly arboreal. Numerous ecological drivers and species-specific factors are suggested to set the conditions for an evolutionary shift from arboreality to terrestriality, and current environmental conditions may provide analogous scenarios to those transitional periods. Therefore, we investigated predominantly arboreal, diurnal primate genera from the Americas and Madagascar that lack fully terrestrial taxa, to determine whether ecological drivers (habitat canopy cover, predation risk, maximum temperature, precipitation, primate species richness, human population density, and distance to roads) or ...
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